2023-08-11
24 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today for the second part in our Think Again series,
finding yourself and your purpose in early adulthood.
In my early 20s when I was still in college,
I was faced with what felt like a huge, huge life decision.
I'd been accepted to two different summer internships.
One was in D.C. interning for a senator's office,
which could pave the way to a career in politics or policy.
The other was in India working for an NGO in a rural area which didn't have such a clear career path laid out after it,
but seemed meaningful and important to experience.
Part of what made that decision so hard for me was it really felt like if I chose the wrong path,
I could be making some big, irreversible, life altering mistake.
It's so profound to really identify
that we have two completely different parts of us that might be leading us in two completely different directions
and then try to make sense of what to do.
What do you listen to?
What part of you do you really trust?
That's Santia Doyle Byock.
She's a psychotherapist who works with people trying to figure out their early adulthood,